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City Council Meeting Minutes May 14 2019 Page 3 of 7 Councilmember Stolzmann asked what the likelihood is of them adopting some of these strategies. Schwartz stated he thinks it is very good, these are good suggestions, and there is a long list of options so they feel confident some changes can be made Mayor Pro Tem Lipton asked if traffic is pushed from flying over Louisville are we then pushing it over some other City We need to think about how what we might gain will affect others. He added the Jefferson County Commissioners will need to be interested in making changes as they control the airport. He asked if DIA traffic is an issue Schwartz stated it doesn't seem to be an issue Councilmember Loo stated the airport does benefit us, we have corporations that fly jets in and out of the airport. She added the wildland fire tankers use the airport and are very important. She would hate to see the tanker operations leave Jeffco DISCUSSION/DIRECTION — URBAN RENEWAL "101" Director DeJong stated this is a primer on urban renewal so everyone has the same understanding of the documents, tools, and powers in play The Urban Renewal laws come from state statute and it lays out the purpose, powers, and tools of the authority The law allows one authority per city Determining blight is required to use urban renewal powers. He reviewed the blighting factors noting the Highway 42 area has nine factors and 550 McCaslin has four factors. DeJong stated the Louisville Revitalization Commission (LRC) is the urban renewal authority for Louisville. He reviewed the history of the board noting it was started in the 1970s, reestablished in 2005, and there was an initiative in 2007 that did not pass that would have made the City Council the urban renewal authority City Attorney Kelly reviewed recent changes from the legislature. She stated changes from 2015 — 2017 resulted in state statute changing the composition of authorities with a larger number of members and incorporating members from all other taxing entities in the urban renewal area There are also provisions for paying back unused funds to the taxing authority These changes affect new urban renewal authorities or those that make substantial changes to their urban renewal plan City Attorney Kelly stated that another change is that if there is a tax increase in an urban renewal area, all of that increase goes to the authority Councilmember Maloney asked if the City could choose to follow the new rules without making changes to our plan City Attorney Kelly stated there is nothing that would prevent the LRC from making those changes if it wanted to City Manager Balser stated the agreement the City made with Boulder County in 2005 addresses some of those issues.